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Six strong-willed women whose adventurous streak changed the face of film industry in early twentieth century Egypt – a time when the country was, despite the liberal ripples, still steeped in conservative tradition. The film shows how these women, different as they were in class and social background, broke taboos and dismissed conventional wisdom to fulfill their overpowering passion for filmmaking. Women Who Loved Cinema takes us to the past and brings us, seamlessly, to the present day. Aziza ... Fatema ... Behidja ... Amina ... Assia … Mary... theirs is a story that will remain indelibly etched in the memory of Egyptian cinema.
After six months at sea, three navy officers return home for a short 24-hour leave, hoping for warmth and affection from their wives. Instead, they're met with cold shoulders and mistrust.
The police officer assigns Rifaat, Helmy’s brother, who is one of the dangerous individuals wanted to be arrested, to arrest a member of a gang of the most skilled and best smugglers. He does not know that the person being arrested is his brother, and the moment he discovers his truth, he must leave the gang in order to begin an honorable life again. The gang stands waiting for him, and even succeeds in getting him to promise that this operation will be the last.
In the 1920s, Azouz is a failed actor and his fiancée Folla works as a maid in the house of the chief of police in Alexandria, who's responsible for arresting serial killers Raya and Sakina. When all plans to arrest them by officer Fathi fail, Azzouz and Folla disguise themselves as Raya and Sakina.
The work deals with the story of the boarding school principal (Noah Al-Maadawi), who is a strict personality who closes in on himself and does not seek to get close to anyone, until he meets (Shahira), who is free in her ideas and has different views from him, and he falls in love with her, and hopes that she will also fall in love with him. Events continue.
Fares is an unknown theatrical actor, while his fiancée, Narges, is a circus performer. The thief, Zaki, recognizes him and tells him that he is a film producer and director, and offers to play the role of a gang boss in his movie about a bank robbery. Zaki agrees with the bank manager to carry out the robbery with real money.
Hassan Musharraf, a reformist, came from the countryside looking for a role in the capital. Meets different models of young deviant within the reformist, and faces the harsh treatment they are subjected to by supervisors of reform by treatment Better, and get the friendship of guests who improve their behavior and create an atmosphere of friendliness among everyone
Esmat decides to drive the cab that she owns, but gets harassed by her former driver, Abdullah, who was exploiting her. He gets some thugs to lure her to an abandoned place, where the vice police arrest them, and events develop.